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... Digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, came under pressure during the April-to-June quarter as investors shunned riskier assets amid uncertainty over U.S. interest rates, geopolitical tensions and persistent outflows from crypto investment products.

The results come as Trump Media seeks to generate new revenue from Truth API, a licensed data feed that will give banks and trading firms "the fastest" access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts, such as President Donald Trump's, whose posts often move global markets.

Trump Media has discussed charging as much as $100,000 a month for the Truth API product, Reuters and other media outlets have reported.

The company said on Monday it had signed more than 10 customer agreements for the feed that launched on August 1, adding that it was continuing to add partners.

"Our new Truth API product is already generating revenue, with more than ten customer agreements signed to date," the company's interim CEO, Kevin McGurn, said in a statement. ...

Another view ...

Meanwhile ...

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... "There's a deep irony that here we are in the capital of the free world, and our president is treating it like a police state," said Scott Michelman, legal director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia. "D.C. residents have lived with our National Guard troops in our neighborhoods for about a year, despite the absence of any genuine emergency and really any reason for them to be here."

The continued deployment will be a major test for a new batch of political candidates expected to take office after the midterms this fall. Residents will look to them to push back on the Republican president's encroachment into the city's affairs -- although they're limited in what they can do to counter it.

Temporary deployment goes on and on

On Aug. 11, 2025, Trump announced he was launching a federal law enforcement surge in Washington aimed at fighting crime. As of Aug. 4, more than 4,600 military personnel from D.C. and 24 states and territories were still deployed alongside unknown numbers of less visible federal law enforcement officers. Some are expected to be withdrawn toward the end of the summer. ...

@#1 ... "There was substantial other damage to the Reflecting Pool, also but, unfortunately, there is no video or proof, other than the damage, itself," ...

Well, there were the videos and photos of Pres Trump's SUV convoy driving over the Reflecting Pool.

Wait, what?

Didn't Pres Trump say he had video evidence of people in the Pool making a massive 300 foot-long cut in the liner?

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... "There was substantial other damage to the Reflecting Pool, also but, unfortunately, there is no video or proof, other than the damage, itself," Trump wrote on social media on Sunday. ...

Trump also said that there was "some contractor error done by rushing the job for a July 4th opening."

The president said that contractors were "working on the Pool, and it will reopen shortly," but said that "it was a very small area of this massive Pool" which was damaged, calling it "relatively inconsequential." ...

@#9

I wonder if Pres Trump would even understand this song from a children's cartoon ...

@#5

Well, Sen Cassidy is a physician, so for starters, he should have known better.

That aside, Sen Cassidy's vote just shows how much MAGA has corrupted things (politics, et al) in the government.

Sen Cassidy is probably singing ...

@#3 ... Will this guy have more luck than Pam Bondi pursuing baseless accusations against political opponents? ...

In that area the problem seems to be Pres Trump's apparent excitation of people who attack people (e.g., D.C. police) and then get a pardon for their actions.

Stated differently, have Pres Trump's apparent past actions been a precursor of what Judges who rule against him might have to face?

@#1 ... Sen. Bill Cassidy said Sunday that his vote pushing Todd Blanche's attorney general confirmation up to a Senate majority was not a "black-and-white decision." ...

Of course he might say that, trying to give the impression that he had a modicum of concern regarding the results of his ~decision.~

The reality seems to be more along the lines that he wants to stay in good graces with MAGA so that he can reap an income as a lobbyist, a role that many former Senators seem to move into..

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... Sen. Bill Cassidy said Sunday that his vote pushing Todd Blanche's attorney general confirmation up to a Senate majority was not a "black-and-white decision."

The Senate voted early Saturday morning to confirm Blanche 50-49, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in opposition.

Blanche, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and acting attorney general since Pam Bondi's ouster in April, climbed a steep hill to gain approval from some GOP senators largely due to his role in creating a $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" as part of Trump's settlement with the IRS.

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@#3

Quite to spoof song.

- should be -

Quite the spoof song.

Oops. :)

Apropos?

@#7 ... Rcade is a dumbass. ...

I disagree.

How many message boards has your alias run?

@#5 ... This happens every August in the northern Gulf of America every year... ...

Found this ...

Pres Trump is likely relying upon his supporters to ...

@#5 ... While all of these admissions strongly smell of marketing stunts ...

Yup.

... they also "constitute an enormous threat to systems that are not protected from, and are not designed, in a world where this exists," Inglis said. "These two things can exist at the same time." ...

Also, yup.

So, which one of the two will fail?

... Tyler Jay Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, is facing a new felony case in Garfield County, Colorado, and the charges are the most serious he has ever faced. ... [emphasis mine]

He has faced charges previously?

@#9 ... Lewzer says the US has lots of munitions ...

But has Pres Trump said which munitions we have lots of?

Did he say we have lots of the [expensive] critical munitions that can detect and disable incoming threats?

Or might he have been referring to our supply of bullets?

@#1

Yeah, the article is a deep dive into the financial issues facing the Country.

A good analysis.

Worth a read.

imo.

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... What that means takes a primer to understand how Washington actually borrows. The Treasury doesn't take out one huge annual loan, rather, it raises cash by selling debt at regularly scheduled auctions. The shortest-dated IOUs, sometimes called "T-bills," come due in a year or less, while the longer-dated notes and bonds -- known as "coupons" -- run anywhere from two to 30 years.

The T-bills offer Washington, now, a rare opportunity to borrow money for the cheap.

At the time of writing, the three-month bill yielded around 3.8%, while the 10-year Treasury yield sat around 4.6%, and the 30-year at a multi-decade high above 5%. So what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has done is lean unusually hard on the cheaper rate today to finance a roughly $2 trillion annual deficit. That holds down reported borrowing costs but leaves the government more exposed to inflation and rising rates. ...